Buried in the week of GDC, SEGA and Creative Assembly finally unleash Stormrise, their ambitious RTS promising breakthrough controls for console gaming. Available now for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, are you curious to see how well the whip-select control scheme and vertical gameplay all rolls together?

If anyone can continue to advance upon what Ensemble Studios did with Halo Wars and creating functional RTS console controls, strategy veterans Creative Assembly (Total War series) has a strong pedigree to warrant quite a bit of optimism.